Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Client Data Technology (CDT) , you will lead System Availability Engineering (SAvE) Teams for Client Data Technology (CDT) applications, playing a critical role in ensuring availability of CDT eco systems, and guiding the development, automation, tooling and realization of SRE best practices. You will drive our adoption of cloud technologies, ensuring that those systems adhere to the SRE standards that we have built with our on premise infrastructure. Through this role you will exercise your influence to ensure new cloud applications are effectively developed, deployed, and maintained. You will be responsible for:

• Identifying tactical and strategic opportunities to improve service health, performance, reliability, and telemetry across CDT Platform focused on systems implemented in the cloud

• Leading the design, architecture and implementation of availability and resiliency roadmap that delivers on modernized tooling and metrics to enable adhering to MTTD, MTTR, and general Availability goals

• Working closely with development team to define a sustainable operating model for CDT cloud applications focusing on platform scale, availability, fault tolerance, and performance to ensure repeatability, consistency, and portability.

• Driving a shift-left mindset and influence architectural decisions to ensure resiliency and scale at the outset of software development process.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

• 8+ years of software development and site reliability engineering experience supporting production applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• 6+ years in DevOps engineering leadership focusing on complementing production operations with automation and tooling initiatives

• 4+ years of technical leadership, supporting highly technical individuals , development and driving efficiencies

• 3+ years of experience defining, driving, and implementing operational best practices (SLOs, SLIs, Error Budgets, Monitoring errors, capacity planning, blameless postmortems, and toil management)

• Proficient in programming languages to automate repeatable processes and building IaaC solutions (Python, CloudFormation, Terraform)

• Knowledge of databases - (SQL, Aerospike, Postgres preferred)

• Knowledge of RabbitMQ and Kafka

Preferred qualifications :

• 6+ years of technical leadership, supporting highly technical individuals , development and driving efficiencies

• Drives though leadership with development teams to encourage building cloud systems that are maintainable on day one

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration-so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

• Paid parental leave and family building benefits

• Tuition reimbursement

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

What’s in it for you:

At Schwab, we’re committed to empowering our employees’ personal and professional success. Our purpose-driven, supportive culture, and focus on your development means you’ll get the tools you need to make a positive difference in the finance industry. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you - both today and in the future:

401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions

Paid parental leave and family building benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.